The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

What part of the golf ball should you look at while you swing? It depends on what sort of flaw you are trying to fix.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans will have the chance in March to see the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years.

Multilateralism is a term frequently used at the United Nations, but it’s not a concept that is only relevant to the corridors and conference rooms where international diplomacy takes place.

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

What did Newton understand that was such a revolution? Can someone just... explain gravity to me? Let's start with a ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

Titled "Ancient Life," it tells the story of what life was like in what is now New Mexico 300 million years ago in the Paleozoic Era, when it was near the Equator, next to multiple seas, and had ...

For many farmers, the collaboration between AGRA and Equator Seeds is the difference between subsistence and prosperity ...

Clouds help control Earths temperature by trapping heat and reflecting sunlight. They keep the planet warm by holding in ...